Gift to the University Archives, State University of New York at
Buffalo, by the Estate of Mildred Martin (Mrs. Darwin R. Martin), in 1983; also
includes related documents donated by Darwin R. Martin, son of Darwin D.
Martin, in 1976, and 1977; and from the Office of the President, State
University of New York at Buffalo, in 1981 and 1983; printed invitation to
"Informal Musical" at Martin House on October 11, [no year], donated by
Margaret Phillips, December 12, 2000, and added to folder 6.7, ephemera.

Copyright of papers in the collection may be held by their authors,
or the authors' heirs or assigns. Researchers must obtain the written
permission of the holder(s) of copyright and the University Archives before
publishing quotations from materials in the collection. Most papers may be
copied in accordance with the library's usual procedures unless otherwise
specified.

April 21 - Darwin D. Martin informs Frank Lloyd Wright
that he's not interested in 1910 cottage design, but a two-story stone house
designed by Frank E. Newman for E.W. Russell of Greenwich, Connecticut

July - Martins request Frank Lloyd Wright to design a
"concrete tent house" for the Foster family (unexecuted)

July - Martins request Frank Lloyd Wright to design a
third-floor to main house (unexecuted)

July 29 - Construction on evergreen garden, stone seat
begun; Frank Lloyd Wright selects and ships furnishings for the main house from
Marshall Fields in Chicago; Frank Lloyd Wright suggests wicker and overstuffed
chairs fo the main house

1935

Darwin D. Martin passes away

Isabelle R. Martin continues to summer at the site, and
winters with the Foster family

1938

November - Engineering report on site compiled by G.E.
Seitzmiller for insurance purposes

1941

Isabelle R. Martin continues to summer at the site, but
moves into garage apartment

1942

Isabelle R. martin spends her last summer at the site; she
moves permanently to Buffalo to live with the Foster family

1945

Isabelle R. Martin passes away

Stewardship of the site falls to a holding company
belonging to Darwin R. Martin, son of Darwin D. Martin

Papers, circa 1878-1935, of Darwin D. Martin (1865-1935) of Buffalo,
New York, an official of the Larkin Company and an early client of Frank Lloyd
Wright. Includes diaries, memorandum books, business and family correspondence,
genealogical material and other items concerning Darwin D. Martin, his wife
Isabelle Reidpath Martin, and their children Dorothy and Darwin R. Martin. Also
included are letters to Martin from his brother William E. Martin of Chicago,
1902-1910, letters to Martin from Elbert Hubbard of the Roycroft Shop, East
Aurora, New York, 1893-1912, and letters to Martin from Booker T. Washington,
1901-1915. Some of the correspondence between William E. and Darwin D. Martin
concerns the activities of Frank Lloyd Wright. Also included are various
memoranda concerning the Darwin D. Martin House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
and a typescript draft of "Romeo and Juliet", 1929(?), which was later
incorporated into Frank Lloyd Wright's Autobiography (1932). The bulk of the
correspondence between Darwin D. Martin and Frank Lloyd Wright, including
additional letters of Darwin D. to William E. Martin, is included in the
related "Frank Lloyd Wright Darwin D. Martin Papers" (MS 22.8) available at the
University Archives of the State University of New York at Buffalo and in the
Special Collections at Stanford University. The University Archives also has
architectural plans, contractor's correspondence and photographs of the Darwin
D. Martin House and related structures (MS 22).

Typescript copies of Darwin D. Martin's diaries, probably
transcribed circa 1934 when Martin was preparing his autobiography. Much of the
material included in the "Autobiography" is derived from these diaries.

In 1934, Darwin D. Martin began work on an autobiography, based on
his early diaries, letters and recollections. The existing manuscript is in two
sections, the first covers Martin's ancestry and the period from his birth to
1885, the second covers 1885 to 1898.

Pocket sized books containing notes, diaries, memoranda and other
information, kept by Darwin D. Martin and Cora M. Herrick (companion to Mrs.
Martin). Includes the "Memoranda of Events in the Life of Darwin D. Martin and
Isabelle R. Martin" begun in 1897, but covering the years 1865 to 1934 in diary
format (see Autobiography pp. 185-186). [Note: A typed transcription of this
diary made by Anita Mitchell, volunteer with
the Martin House Restoration Corporation, in January 2014 is in a folder in Box
3 along with the diaries.]

Also includes a "Daily Reminder" kept by Darwin D. Martin in 1903
and two "A Line a Day" diaries (1911 1915 and 1916, 1922), kept by Cora M.
Herrick, who became a companion to Mrs. Martin in 1912. Some of the memoranda
concern Martin's financial affairs and his work for the Larkin Company. One
memorandum book (item 3.11) contains several notes concerning the Martin house.

Arrangement is chronological.

Box-folder

Contents

3.1

Memoranda of Events in the Life of Darwin D. and
Isabelle R. Martin,
1865-1934

Also includes typed transcript in accompanying folder.

3.2

Account of Travels Abroad (Ireland, England, France),
1899

3.3

Daily Reminder,
1903

3.4

A Line A Day (Cora M. Herrick),
1911-15

3.5

A Line A Day (Cora M. Herrick),
1916,
1922

3.6

Memorandum Book (Cost estimates for Larkin Company),
1893-97

3.7

Memorandum Book,
1895-1925

Includes profits, salaries, inventory)

3.8

Christmas Record,
1899-1901

Includes notes on Larkin Company employees vacation time

3.9

Memorandum Book (Cost estimates for Larkin Company),
undated

Includes

3.10

Birthday Book of Proverbs,
undated

Includes family member birth dates

3.11

Memorandum Book,
1903-?

3.12

Expense Account
1919-20

Includes pre printed forms for travel expenses in notebook of
the Larkin Company; contains two pages of notes by Darwin Martin

Record of cash received and expended, arranged chronologically,
including the name of the person or business monies were received from and paid
to, and a breakdown of expenses and receipts by type. The cash book provides a
detailed record of Darwin D. Martin's financial transactions and overall
financial condition during 1902.

7.2

Ledger,
circa 1923-1935[30 x 34 cm.]

Contains accounts dated circa 1913 to 1935, with some earlier
and later entries. Many of the accounts are carried over from a previous
ledger, which has not been located. The cover of the ledger has a handwritten
label identifying it as the "Estate of Darwin D. Martin Assignments to the
Phoenix Corp." The accounts document Darwin D. Martin's investments in real
estate, stocks, bond and other properties. Several accounts concern the
buildings designed for the Martin Family by Frank Lloyd Wright. There are also
accounts with Frank Lloyd Wright (1913 1935) and Frank Lloyd Wright, Inc. (1927
34 and 1929 30) showing Martin's financial dealings with Wright over a twenty
year period.

Primarily letters to Darwin R. Martin from family
members and friends during period while Darwin R. was a student at Exeter
Academy and Yale University, and during the early years of his business career.
1916-1925

Also includes biographical information of Darwin R. Martin;
letters circa
1969-1977, concerning Frank Lloyd Wright;
and early drafts, probably from the
1970s, of papers by DRM on Frank Lloyd
Wright, Darwin D. Martin and the Wright Martin association.

Genres

Photocopies of some letters from MS 22.8, Boxes 1-2, primarily
concerning Martin family affairs or the public life of Darwin D. Martin were
added to MS 22.6 as indicated below. The originals of these letters remain in
MS 22.8.